[Frameworks] Camera-less film and close-up

[Caryn Cline]

Hello Kim,

This isn't a direct connection, but I have often used a quote from Richard
Lanham to talk about the impact of my handmade botanicollage films.  Here
it is contextualized in one of my handouts.

Shifting the expectations about scale in a work is an important artistic
strategy, and central to most if not all handmade films.   As cultural
critic Richard Lanham observes in *The Electronic Word: Democracy,
Technology and the Arts*,



To change scale is, as with repetition, to transform reality utterly,
without changing it at all. To make art of scaling changes means making us
self-conscious about perceptual distance and the conventions, neural and
social, that cluster around it. That distance itself can so change an
object—give it, to use Duchamp’s phrase, a “new look”—locks us into a
conception of art as essentially interactive (42).



Through my films, I hope to “transform reality utterly” by placing plants
in an unfamiliar context and by doing so to remind viewers (in an
“essentially interactive” way) that what we do with plants, how we see
them, how we treat them, matters.


Best wishes,


CC
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Caryn Cline
Experimental Filmmaker & Teacher
"a proud member of the reality-based community"
www.vimeo.com/carynyc


film still from "butterfly disaster" 2019







On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 6:35 AM Gregory Zinman <gzinman at mac.com> wrote:

> Hi Kim,
>
> This might not be exactly what you’re looking for, but I have a chapter in
> my forthcoming book, *Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other
> Arts* (University of California Press, January 2020) that discusses the
> ways cameraless films perform a kind of self-portraiture.
>
> Good luck with your research, and all best,
>
> Greg
>
> Gregory Zinman, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> School of Literature, Media, and Communication
> Georgia Institute of Technology
>
> gregory.zinman at lmc.gatech.edu
> handmadecinema.com
>
> On Aug 14, 2019, at 6:19 AM, Kim Knowles <kim.knowles at edfilmfest.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
> Dear Frameworkers,
>
> Does anyone have any published references to the relationship between
> handmade film/cameraless film and the cinematic close-up?
>
> Thanks!
> Kim
>
> Kim Knowles
>
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